You know that you have a great taste for music when Yogev showcase many of the bands that you like on his chanel. Periphery, Meshuggah, Snarky Puppy and so on.
Right in the middle of the vid I started to ask myself what was I exactly doing here, I'm not even a drummer and last time I struggled so hard with math I was in the college studying Hamiltonian mechanic. Ok simply awesome. It's addictive, I want more...
For all you advanced drummer there is a 2 part Mastering Time Lesson on Matt Garstka website which explain how to come with these shifting patterns. I don't know if you didn't notice that or if you wanted to avoid getting to much in depth but the acceleration is due to switching from 5-tuplet to 7-tuplets. You can fit the 33232232 in 2 measures of 4/4 as 5-tuplets (20 beats) and the 44343343 in the 2 same measures as 7-tuplets (28 beats). As you said in the 11:8 video, the accents doesn't seem displaced as they are so close between the two of them. But it work and Matt is actually floating between 3, 5 and 7 during the song which indicates that there is no tempo change.
Its crazy that they were able to write music that's so rhythmically complex, yet so ethereal sounding. You dont usually get that floating feeling from music this complex.
I sometimes have the feeling that, that which we call "progressive" is basically just balkan music or indian music being incorparated into rock and jazz. When I listen to pontic greek music or bulgarian folk music they do this "long short substitution" all the time! Love it!
Love the visuals as always so good! I personally view the part in Iris as groupings of notes which follows a “pyramid” pattern of 1-2-3-2-1-2-3-2-1-2-3-etc. Just meshes better with my brain
Bro, Matt is legendary and Joshua is such an accessible nice person and versatile talented guitar player. Very happy to see them getting a spotlight in your amazing analysis!
Hey, I am a percussion junkie who has played for 27 years, at the moment not going professional. Basically zero hours of theory, just listening to all kinds of straight and or dodgy music. I appreciate your channel and drumming and keen ear for rhytms and melodies. I liked, subscribed and commented. You provide so much good tips to whole new world of music for me, thank you so much keep on drumming and dissecting the patterns for us
Man jesus christ thanks for this vid! I love prog music, metric modulation and Victoria and ur vid nailed it! I did not understand other tutorials about metric modulation but your explanation is really clear especially because you explained parts for both guitar and drums.
@@andyramos3493 It's been done by Yogev himself in one of these videos :-D part of it at least :-p the intro riff. The name of the video is something else though, it's not "AAL breakdown...". Cheeeers.
There are guys that play ridiculous times, like Virgil and Mike Mangini, but it feels rigid and doesn't flow. What's crazy about Garstka is that he can play all this stuff and make it groove and feel awesome. It's like Vinnie on Seven Days but 10 times more complicated.
Hi. Great vid once again. I think kepler refers to the physicist, and his theory "music of the spheres"(each planet has a proper melody linked with her orbitual curve )
This is amazing! I have been listening to Kepler on repeat the whole day - absolute love the song, as well as your videos! Keep up the good work, Yogev!
Man, this is such a great video!! You explained it all so well and in such an easy to understand way, all in a very well put together video, while also making me lol throughout. Kudos!
I was actually meaning to comment that you should check those guys out, I was really curious to know their rhythmic trickery. Really great video!! thank you :)
Love this duo, and brilliant to see your analysis! To my ears, the long-shorts in Iris sound almost like 4 in the time of the old 3, and 3 in the time of the old 2 (slightly quicker than the 4 16ths) but I might be imagining it.
F***..... Now its all coming together....man you explain so easily and its super easy to understand.... Please do some lessons related to subdivisions, syncopation,metric modulation,odd meter...hatss off you are on next level😂
It's amazing to me that there's people out there who are able to count and comprehend this crazy, beautiful music. Thank you so much Yogev and I hope you do something from Blotted Science (ahem, Night Terror lol) sometime in the near future! So happy to have found your channel.
Seconding this. In the meantime I'd recommend checking out Metal Music Theory, they have similar "breakdowns of insane songs" format and have covered Car Bomb in a few videos. These two have quickly become favorite theory channels and anyone who likes one will probably like the other.
Hi Yogev! These Long Long Short things are so cool. Thanks for explaining, I think the like:dislike ratio is more than deserved (1K likes vs 0 dislikes). I came across a song by Tears for Fears called "Standing in the Corner of the Third World" and when i tried to play to last 2 minutes of the song on bass i figured that there's something weird going on there. The piano/leads are playing groups of 6 while Pino Palladino plays some other polyrhythm/weird timing on bass that i cant wrap my head around! Partly because theres no clear main time signature I guess.
Great video, I think there's a similar example of this I'm animals as leaders new song Monomyth at end of the mid section there's a tempo shift and then as it runs down you can write down the numbers in a similar way. One to explore if you feel it.
Yogev! I love every single one of your videos, you’re an incredible teacher and I live for this subject matter. Just writing to let you know, I wrote my master’s thesis (back in 1999, I’m old lol) on a system of odd-meter polyrhythm creation very similar to your “Shifting Gravity” idea. It allows for easy generation of dank as f grooves in ratios like 7:5, 11:8, 15:11, etc. In fact, I’m currently putting together a tune with a pretty sick polyrhythmic groove in a 43:29 ratio. Anyhow, if you’d ever like to have a quick chat, I’d be honored to share the particulars of my system with you, including how to do it successfully at slower tempos (that’s where it gets really groovy, imho).
THE LASANGA YOGEV! Great video as always man, I was hoping you’d cover these tracks as Matt and Josh are complete killers. I sense Vardavar around the corner...
I really enjoy your videos as I'm a gig fan of odd time signatures and polymeters etc. This is incredible stuff, though; so much going on here. I wondered how you extract all the parts to analyse them; do you use software or do you just have that drummer's ability to hear everything? 🙂
Awesome video, alas i dont think you are the first to identify the Long Short Long shift idea. David Bruce talked about it in his analysis of Tigran. However amazing video none the less!
And on a different note, any chance to convince you to do a breakdown of Shem Tov Levi's Golden Peacock? The unpredictable constant switches from 7:8 to 8:8 behind a nice catchy tune (a veritable pop classic in its country of origin) is too tasty to miss out on. And you, for one, should be familiar with the piece :-)
How would you go about recording something like this, assuming you use a metronome? It's one thing to slightly warp the subdivisions to fit a certain pulse, or momentarily feel the click as some polyrhythm, but when you fully commit to metric modulating and start incorporating other subdivisions, it start to get real messy. Do you necessarily have to make a tempo track in advance? What about if the song has an improvised section in it, for example a solo part, with no predetermind length? I'm assuming either the recording engineer has to control some aspect of the click in real time, or you just have to record the different tempo sections seperatly and edit them together afterwords? Would love to hear if you have some insights that can make the recording process for something like this a bit less challenging. Anyway, thanks for a great lesson! This series is a gift
Yo! So the way I'd do it is by programing the click track no doubt. The cool think here is that Josh and Matt chose a tempo the divided nicely into these two different "subdivisions" if you will so you don't get any 124.6894578456 bpm or something like that. When it comes to an improvised section, yeah, that's a bit harder and there are some workarounds. But playing the improvised section, stopping and continuing with a new click might be your best bet. All depends on the song!
Awesome work! It’s cool to finally “get” what I’ve been hearing. Question: if I’m counting this type of stuff, and it switches from 4/4 to 7/8 does it make sense to just count it as 8/8 and 7/8?
